In the film, designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Manolo Blahnik, Giorgio Armani, and Christian Louboutin recall their fondest memories of the New York department store and its starriest clients. In one such anecdote, Michael Kors relays how Elizabeth Taylor once managed to have several hundred pairs of mink earmuffs hastily made for her in a single week by the store’s famed fur department. Per the New York Post:

It was the early 1970s, and screen siren Elizabeth Taylor had made an appointment at Bergdorf Goodman’s fur salon.

As she sauntered into the room, workers were lined up at attention. After all, the store expected Taylor to walk out with enough fur coats and blankets to keep all of Siberia toasty.

But instead, Taylor asked if they could make her a pair of mink earmuffs. The furrier at the Fifth Avenue institution happily agreed.

“Well, great,” the screen siren replied, “because I need 200 pairs of white mink earmuffs to give to everyone on my Christmas list.” She widened her violet eyes before adding: “And we’re leaving for Gstaad in a week.”

The Daily Mail offers another anecdote about the extravagant lengths that Yoko Ono and John Lennon went to in order to procure their own expensive winter wear:

Former fur buyer Jack Cohen recalls one Christmas Eve the late Seventies, when Yoko Ono, a huge fur collector at the time, called the store at 4pm on behalf of her husband, John Lennon.

‘John wants to buy me some furs. Can you come over?’ she asked.

Although it was almost closing time, Cohen and his co-workers lugged ten trunks full of pelts to the Dakota, where the couple lived.

An apologetic Ono and Lennon surveyed the offerings privately in the kitchen, and almost two hours later that the sales team sold the couple 80 furs worth more than $400,000 for friends as gifts.

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman’s, which takes its title from a classic New Yorker cartoon by Victoria Roberts, opens in select theaters on May 3.